Weekend Thread: Actuals - AQM $31M | Escape Room $18.24M | MPR $15.86M | Bumblebee $13.20M | Spider-Verse $13.13M

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Edited February 19, 2019 by Slave Animal Rights

[grim22]

Bohemian Rhapsody to get a big expansion to capitalize on Best Picture at the Globes?

[LouisianaArkansasGeorgia]

I hate that so many people consider AMATW an underperformer. It was a well received sequel that outgrossed its predecessor domestic, overseas, and globally. Considering the character is nothing like the major icons of Marvel, you need to have some perspective. Even Aquaman was an iconic character that, despite being sort of a joke, was well known to everyone and their grandma (thanks to Super Friends and a conspicuous presence in pop culture throughout the years). And Black Panther had an incredibly potent sociocultural impact (and catered to an audience that was hungry to see itself on the big screen as a superhero, not unlike what happened with Wonder Woman)  that helped the film explode at the box office despite the character not being that well known. Ant-Man and the Wasp made all it was going to make, and it was a sizable hit. But we cannot expect every superhero film to gross Infinity War/Black Panther numbers. Captain Marvel will be a solid hit, but I already hate that it will also be called "a so-so performer" when it inevitable does not make as much as Wonder Woman domestically or as much as an Avengers film worldwide. 

 

 

[VTKajin]

Name recognition really shouldn't be an excuse when GotG made it big on its first outing. Even Doctor Strange outperformed both Ant-Man movies. This has nothing to do with how popular the characters are.

[AndyK]

9 hours ago, movieboner said:

Can Aquaman take out Civil War and Skyfall worldwide? That would be glorious. 

Imagine if it took out The Last Jedi.

[Brainbug]

5 minutes ago, AndyK said:

Imagine if it took out The Last Jedi.

 

Unnessecary, honestly. Why fuel the fire again? Especially, when Aquaman (which has a 230M+ advantage in China) will even in the best case fall short by over 170-180M?

[a2k]

In 2017/18 if someone had said "Aquaman ww will outgross Justice League and Solo combined"

JL + Solo = 659 + 393 = 1052

 

[Krissykins]

8 hours ago, The Futurist said:

I condemn you to watch only the third act on repeat until the end of days.

Fine by me. I actually enjoyed the 3rd act more this time than I have before. 

[MagnarTheGreat]

10 hours ago, Celedhring said:

Always wondered by The Numbers don't try to do more with those graphs. Something really basic as just using the average of films released that month would yield much more useful results and probably would not be that hard to code. They have enough data to produce a decent average.

I've done so here:

 

 

 

They and others in the game need to adjust for the calendar.

Edited January 7, 2019 by MagnarTheGreat

[a2k]

Another humbling BO lesson about Christmas movie's fading no matter how strong they look,

Date	Rank	Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Week
2018/11/09	1	$67,572,855		4,141	$16,318	$67,572,855	1
2018/11/16	2	$38,587,130	-43%	4,141	$9,318	$126,963,410	2
2018/11/23	3	$30,392,220	-21%	3,960	$7,675	$180,494,990	3
2018/11/30	2	$17,926,785	-41%	3,934	$4,557	$203,705,980	4
2018/12/07	2	$15,039,050	-16%	3,841	$3,915	$223,324,225	5
2018/12/14	3	$11,753,665	-22%	3,759	$3,127	$239,463,375	6
2018/12/21	6	$8,458,030	-28%	2,780	$3,042	$253,498,005	7
2018/12/28	10	$4,122,245	-51%	2,555	$1,613	$265,457,730	8
2019/01/04	-	$1,159,000	-72%	1,662	$697	$269,612,735	9

 

After weekend #7 (8.5m, 253.5m) with Christmas and New Years to come, I really thought 280-290 was locked for Grinch. Will still beat Sing (270.4m) and just cross 4.0x multi (needs 270.3m). Great dom performance and unexpectedly strong legs keeping in mind WIR2 was in the wake and started very strong.

[Napoleon]

2 hours ago, Krissykins said:

Fine by me. I actually enjoyed the 3rd act more this time than I have before. 

I like Wonder Woman's 3rd act too. When the story and characters are captivating like that, you don't need perfect CGI work. I love Wonder Woman and I wouldn't change anything, I think it works perfectly.

[The Futurist]

I like the third act of Wonder Woman too, it s just the critics who pretended it didn't exist that amuses me.

That kind of third act, they usually call it "problematic" or roll their eyes at it & whatnot.

Edited January 7, 2019 by The Futurist

[AndyK]

22 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

I like the third act of Wonder Woman too, it s just the critics who pretended it didn't exist that amuses me.

That kind of third act, they usually call it "problematic" or roll their eyes at it & whatnot.

The third act was the whole point of the movie. Holding that tank above her head and rerunning everything through her head, realising her actions got a lot of people killed and more killing wasn't going to solve anything, was the defining moment. Much more emotive than no man's land to my mind. 

 

Third act was glorious.

[lorddemaxus]

The original ending of Wonder Woman in test screens sounded better. Wonder Woman doesn't really fight Ares. The whole fight is basically Wonder Woman defending herself from Ares (and not trying to kill him). Ares also supposedly looked a lot more mythical and not generic CGI character. He dies when Wonder Woman accidentally deflects one of Ares's lightning bolts. I like the ending we got but I find it kind of clunky that she stops violence with more violence.

[Zakiyyah6]

4.0 multiplier says that people were just fine with Wonder Woman's 3rd act. 

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[VTKajin]

Solid weekend. Can it hit $300M next Sunday? 

 

EDIT: Nvm, I didn't realize how weak the weekday grosses will probably be. It'll probably be next weekend that it crosses 300.

Edited January 7, 2019 by VTKajin

[grim22]

7 minutes ago, VTKajin said:

Solid weekend. Can it hit $300M next Sunday? 

Should do 10M over the weekdays and about 20M next weekend for 290M. 300M on MLK weekend Saturday